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braveheart
2018-11-18, 04:42 PM
I have been running this campaign for a little while and the antics of the party are constantly going in a direction I hadn't anticipated. I can start by addressing the party composition and you may start to suspect the issue

Percy: halfling rogue, swashbuckler, he sees himself as an adventurer, for the sake of adventure. Even as a child he would run off into the wilderness to find adventure. Mechanically it is pertinent that he placed his expertise in persuasion. And persuasion is his highest stat.

Ambrose: dwarf forge cleric, adoptive father of Percy, Fez, and Marron, prior to the instigating incident. He is a follower of the great titans Gia, Aquas, Ignus, and Aether. In his faith the titans are the earth sea fire and sky, respectively, his is the primary religion in the region.

Shautha: half orc, devotion paladin, of the elemental Titans. She was raised in the temple of Gia, where the great gate of Gia resides. The gate of Gia, Called Gia's Whomb, had been the birthplace of races. The Dwarves, Humans, Halfling, Gnomes, and Orcs have all emerged from Gia's Whomb. The Orcs only emerged 20 years prior, and Shautha is among the oldest of the half Orcs, she is fairly young and naive. Having served in the main temple her whole life, she is devoted to her beliefs.

Fez, gnome, transmutation wizard. Fez aka meep (because he makes that sound very often) is absolutely terrified of most things. He was raised by Ambross and had recently started working at the mages guild prior to the inciting incident.

Maron: half elf, arcane archer. The elves are at a hostile stalemate with the other races, currently the elves control all the known lands outside of the Gia Mountains, the range of mountains that surrounds the capitol and encompasses the whole of the all non elven races. Until the Dwarves emerged from Gia's Whomb the elves had lives on the surface as the sole inteligent race. And see the emergent races as nothing more than dirt. However the alliance military has secured the Gia mountains. Maron never met her mother, and her father left her for dead, seeing her as dirt like the rest of the emergent races. She managed to get to the capitol and spent most of her childhood in Ambrose's orphange.

Charles: human fighter warlord. A member of the emergent alliance military, prior to the inciting incident he mainly guarded the caves that elves could potentially use to pass the Gia Mountains.

Niara, halfling Bard, shed been wandering the villages withing the Gia Mountains singing and earning a living before the inciting incident.

braveheart
2018-11-18, 04:43 PM
Stagnation...
Withering...
Death...
Ambrose wakes up from a restless sleep having seen visions of destruction and death throughout the night. thinking nothing of it, he continues his regular daily activities cooking for the orphans in his charge.
Percy runs off on "an adventure" to use his terminology. hoping to explore, find new places, and make new friends.
Fez studies his an arcane book he found in the Attic of the orphanage.
Maron, being the oldest child at the orphanage is assisting Ambrose wherever he needs it.
Chase takes his post.
Shautha sets about her duties in the temple of Gia cleaning, and taking up martial practices.
and Niara enters the capitol city with new songs to sing to earn her meals and beds.
None of these characters had ever gone on a grand adventure, in fact they have all lived relatively normal lives up to this point.
The Guards are sent to find people who match the descriptions of the PC's on orders from the Oracle of Aether. Everyone except Percy go along when the guards ask for them to come. Percy takes of running and leads the guards on a chase through the market district. After many a shop is disrupted, Percy is cornered and surrenders, only to find out that they only wanted to escort him to the temple, not arrest him.

As the PC's gather at the